hmmm, should i support the studio capitulating to a fascist regime? Or should I support the studio being bought by murderous religious fundamentalists?
so Saudi Arabia bought fifa, basically, with a free add on of some other sports games and a ton of dead ip that they hold.
All the sports games are basically gacha games now anyway with just yearly roster updates. And yet they get tons of whales dropping 10k+. Such a scam. Figures the saudi royals and kushner would be all about that unethical bullshit
China isn’t Saudi Arabia, and Trump collective media control efforts hasn’t reached gaming yet. Tiktok was China ownership reduction from 40-20 percent, while China still retains algorithm control. This one is a buy.
It’s an opposite movement of ownership between countries, yes, but every different overall and in the details.
Was EA even doing anything with any of the actually good IPs they had? I haven’t heard of anything particularly interesting coming from them in a while now (ie. decades).
I mean, they published Split Fiction and Tales of Kenzera this year and their Star Wars games were more than decent (let's hear it for the atrociously underrated X-Wing revival they made with Squadrons). They also published the C&C Remaster that same year, which I feel doesn't get enough credit despite getting a lot of credit. Probably one of the best examples of one of those in recent memory.
Let's not be disingenuous, none of that is their bread and butter, but it's not like they were entirely dormant.
It's been EA since a different millenium. I think it's time to get over it.
FWIW, the remake itself was made by an external studio including members of the original team and they apparently collaborated closely with some sort of consulting group of modders and preservation-focused community people.
Well, yeah, but those principles don't typically relate to videogame companies nor to purchase habits regarding 30 year old videogames.
Voting with your wallet is ultracapitalist, self-serving non-activism people deploy performatively to make themselves feel better about stuff they don't care that much about, not "principles". No offense.
Honestly that’s a valid assumption, but I still have some faint of naivity that they won’t whilst the code is closed source and the devs don’t plan to include donation pages
Shit sorry should have clarified, i meant that ubisoft would never release the source code. I would not be surprised if pierre cochon, world famous ubisoft dev #3352 got shot at gunpoint for even suggesting that
Same, picked it up on a whim a few months before the shutdown, couldn’t put it down. They got the tone perfectly, and the map is really good, and their progression system actually requires you to play the game. It felt magical, like a NFS World sequel of my dreams, the only downside was trying to set up steering properly.
Then i tried the crew 2, and haven’t tried it since, just doesn’t feel as good.
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